Angst Alert
Sporadic MySpace outages make emo kids even angstier:
Don’t I know it, but I’ll be talking about that on the podcast this week. Anyway, this is a great tongue in cheek article about today’s MySpace outage…
But now: They’re baaaaa-ack! On Friday morning, the blogosphere began buzzing with the news that an unknown portion of MySpace profiles were inaccessible, displaying messages that say “Invalid Friend ID. This user has either cancelled their membership, or their account has been deleted.”
This is, however, nothing like last weekend’s power fizzle; this mini-outage does not appear to affect all MySpace users, nor has it shut down the main site, because it seems to be limited to profiles. There is no official word from MySpace yet about what exactly the problem is, and as of around 10 a.m. Pacific time, it hasn’t ended yet. But despite its limited scope, the new outages have inspired a smaller version of the panic from over the weekend–among the MySpace demographic, “deleted” can be a really, really bad word.
Twenty years down the line, when emo music, the genre most intimately connected to MySpace, is experiencing its third or fourth revival, some band will likely record a song about the Great MySpace Outages of 2006. (Even better that they happened in July. Those bands seem to have a knack for singing nostalgic tunes about teenage summers.) It’ll probably be an angsty, screamy ballad called “OMG, WTF, Bring Back My Top 8.”
If this pissed you off than you might be emo.
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jade
Jul 29, 2006 at 10:24 pm
where’d you find the picture of Steve? ;-)